Burtons’ St Leonards Society Spring 2019 Newsletter
E-bulletin – The Society AGM – Monday 29th April 2019 at 18:00
e-bulletin (18 March 2019) Annual General Meeting All members* of the Hastings & St. Leonards Society are encouraged to attend our Annual General Meeting at the White Rock Hotel (ground floor meeting room) on Monday 29 April, 6 pm start. The Agenda for the AGM will be circulated to all individual members of the Society, [...]
Hastings Bygones Volume 8
Hastings Local History Group have published their latest volume of the Bygones Series - Volume 8. Contents - The Bus That Went To War Hastings Breweries Strike Up The Band Robinson Crusoe's Cave The Entente Cordiale Fetes Hastings Automobile Carnival & Gymkhana Pier Professors Convent of The Holy Child Jesus Fire On the SS Lugano [...]
Hastings Heritage Trail
Hastings Heritage Trail is an interactive walking tour designed to be fun for all generations. It features ten central Hastings locations that have stayed largely unchanged for at least 25 years. The trail has been created by Hastings born photographer Maxine Beuret. Each place has been chosen for its fascinating history with a focus on design. It [...]
Hastings B.I.D. February 2019 Update
In this month's newsletter: 1) Budget planning for the BID for 2019/20 - where your money goes 2) Easter, summer and Christmas events from the BID - plus a new 'busking code of conduct' 3) Flyposting and flytipping - please think twice 4) High Street survey - results 5) The role of Peter, our Business Ambassador, and [...]
Further Notes from Chris Lewcock on St Leonard’s Parish Church
St Leonards Church and Undercliff: Preliminary Thoughts Key Issues The working assumption of this report is to consider St Leonards Church in the context of the wider townscape. See attached birds’ eye view and aerial shot - in the .pdf below Further consideration may nevertheless demonstrate that this is over-ambitious or unnecessary and that it [...]
The ‘Diving Tower’ Project
We have been sent an official copy of a BBC programme broadcast in November 2018 on the 'Diving Tower' project as talked about by Colin Booth at our last open meeting. BBC South East Today 151018 - Diving Tower Here are the notes we issued together with a couple of slides which he showed. Notes [...]
E-bulletin – Grant Award for West Hill (Hastings) Local Heritage Project
E-bulletin (4 March 2019) - Grant Award for West Hill (Hastings) Local Heritage Project Hastings & St. Leonards Society has been awarded a grant of up to £8,500 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund) for its West Hill (Hastings) Local Heritage and Community Festival Project. Firing a Royal [...]
Agenda For The Society Open Meeting – Monday 25th February 2019
Monday 25th February 2019 18:00 at the White Rock Hotel Agenda 1. Welcome from the Chair, and any apologies. 2. Update on the UNESCO World Heritage Site status proposal (Julia Hilton) 3. Report from the West Marina Partnership group on the work for a Neighbourhood Plan for the former bathing pool site (Virginia Vilela) 4. [...]